I’m sure you’ve heard this story by now: Keef has been sober for the last 4 months. Can you handle this, Stones fans and general fans of vicariously living through any “Bad Boy?”
I say, from all accounts the guy has partied enough for a few lifetimes. If he decides to stick with this, he’s got nothing to lose. Imagine how much work it takes for him to get a buzz after all these years of saturation?
What really should be at issue is what this means for Keef’s creativity. Can there be a Rolling Stones led by a sober Keith Richards? Do The X-Pensive Winos become Ex-Pensive? Will passing around a bottle of root beer suffice while gathered around a mic, doing backing vocals with Mick and a couple of backing singers? Will Keef remember that it takes two hands to play guitar?
Free your mind, Townspeople, and share with us your thoughts on a world with a sober Keef. Thanks.
Geez, what’s the point? I can understand a deathbed conversion/confession, you know, do away with a life time of sinnin’ right at the buzzer, but it’s not like his liver/lungs/brain are going to start mending themselves (are they?)
i like that he can still shock us in his 60s
I remember when Ronnie sobered up. He quit drinking liquor and started drinking wine instead. I think he had Guinness quit stocking kegs in his house. I’m not sure a Rolling Stone sobering up by drinking five bottles of wine a day instead of a half gallon of liquor really qualifies as sobering up. Keith also “dabbles” in heroin use, so I’m not sure that his definition of sobriety is the same as us mortals.
I don’t get this. The guy is in his 60s and still ‘dabbles’ in heroin??!!
What is it going to take to kill this guy? Is he immortal? Is he the Highlander?
I mean, I love Keith and all.. I watch him mostly when I see the Stones in concert. I even bought a repro- 52 Tele.
I should say that the heroin shocks me a bit. It does shock me if these guys still smoke pot.
I mean… really. Do you honestly think you can convince me that Ringo and Paul don’t smoke some herb sometimes? Those guys were still doing it well into the 1980s. They didn’t stop. They just cut down a tad.
sorry.. it DOESN’T shock me that these guys still smoke pot.. typo
What I want to know is if anyone can find a photo of him having his blood transfused or his liver transplanted.
Ah who cares… Bring back Whiskey David!
I’m sure he’d show ol’ Keef how ta partay.
I’m fine with the concept of Keith sobering up. I don’t think he’d act or play any differently. But an anonymously sourced story in the Sun? I don’t think that counts as journalism. I’m withholding judgment until there’s a little more verification than that.
Yes, the source for this story is not to be trusted.
I remember seeing KR on the cover of the old Musician magazine back around 1986 or so (maybe later), and he looked like death warmed over, cooled, and warmed over some more then–not to mention that phlegm-tinged laugh from later TV interviews. And he’s still alive now, booze and all? .
How is it that Joe Strummer, Timothy White–hell, even Michael Jackson– weren’t as strong? I’d really like to know…
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